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authorMarco Elver <elver@google.com>2023-06-20 19:17:35 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-06-23 16:59:25 -0700
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tree95adbbea9e4e8a74932e4cac3efdd658daeba070 /Documentation
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kasan, doc: note kasan.fault=panic_on_write behaviour for async modes
Note the behaviour of kasan.fault=panic_on_write for async modes, since all asynchronous faults will result in panic (even if they are reads). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZJHfL6vavKUZ3Yd8@elver.google.com Fixes: 452c03fdbed0 ("kasan: add support for kasan.fault=panic_on_write") Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Taras Madan <tarasmadan@google.com> Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ parameter can be used to control panic and reporting behaviour:
- ``kasan.fault=report``, ``=panic``, or ``=panic_on_write`` controls whether
to only print a KASAN report, panic the kernel, or panic the kernel on
invalid writes only (default: ``report``). The panic happens even if
- ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled.
+ ``kasan_multi_shot`` is enabled. Note that when using asynchronous mode of
+ Hardware Tag-Based KASAN, ``kasan.fault=panic_on_write`` always panics on
+ asynchronously checked accesses (including reads).
Software and Hardware Tag-Based KASAN modes (see the section about various
modes below) support altering stack trace collection behavior: